Chapter 72 - The Dirty Truth

Author Note: How's it hanging everyone? Got all my aunt's stuff into a Pod, and now it's off to storage till she finds a new home. I appreciate everyone's patience, and continued support. My apologies if I missed replying to anyone's comments, I got home at 2am on Saturday and was doing grocery shopping on Sunday.

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"Master Victor, Wesker has activated the Doomsday Protocol for Umbrella. All remaining assets have been let loose into the world.", Red Queen told me, "Currently there are-"

"How many times have I told you to just call me Victor? You are not my slaves or maids so please refrain from calling me that.", I sighed rubbing my forehead, "We knew this was coming, there was only so much Jeong could do to stall for time. Our allies are aware of the situation, but all we can do is keep moving forward with our plans. This only makes things more difficult is all."

"We will continue to call you Master Victor till you invite us to the bedroom.", White Queen stated mimicking Shizuka's playful smile, "Based on information we have gathered from the internet, men will cave if women nag them enough. Since nagging isn't something we understand, we chose a minor annoyance instead."

"I don't think that is how it works.", Saeko laughed, "Victor is liable to disassemble you before he agrees if you use that tactic."

"I thank you for the information, Lady Saeko. We can adjust our clothing to match what some women call slutty. This should be sufficient to trigger his male urges.", Red Queen said, "The other women have already taken to dressing as such."

"I take offense to that.", Rei refuted, "We are enjoying the warm weather before we start to freeze out here. Besides which, it's only slutty if we were trying to attract another man's attention. We only dress like this in front of Victor."

Thinking back to a few days prior when I saw Rika, Shizuka, and Yuko in booty shorts and tank tops...yeah I could approve of that. Thinking of what the two of them would look like, I was strongly considering it. They were gorgeous women without a doubt, but I wanted to ensure that some of the others had their chance. Since they were cyborgs, they could make a child with me first time without worrying about it. At this stage I didn't want the mature women to become disheartened if it took some time to happen. On top of that, we were still waiting on the results of everyone's pregnancy tests that they had recently taken. The women told me they would reveal the results at dinner this evening.

'I haven't checked with my system because I want them to tell me themselves.', I thought, 'Not to mention it would have been very difficult to explain to them how I knew.'

"Master Victor.", White Queen stated getting my attention, "There is more information regarding the situation at HQ. We would like to share it with you now if it's alright."

"Proceed.", I replied as the two sat next to me.

Explaining to me that a group of scientists had managed to escape Wesker's killing spree, they were on their way here with two experimental clones of Ilulu that my mother made. Asking for clarification on what they meant, they apologized and said that they didn't have much on them. Stating that my mother didn't keep digital notes of her experiments, everything they need was based on footage they had.

"Are they as dangerous as Ilulu?", I asked with a concerned look, "Ilulu has gotten better, but I still wouldn't leave her alone with a human."

"No, their combat power is significantly less than hers. If we put it in numerical form, they are one tenth of her strength.", Red Queen advised, "They hate humanity just as much as she does though, and that completely stems from your mother's experiments. You likely don't remember, but you have meet them as an infant. The two were fascinated by you, and were incredibly protective of you. The two of them killed anyone that tried to experiment on you before being sealed away beneath the lab for safety. After they were sealed, we took matters into our own hands to ensure your continued safety."

"Why didn't you tell me they were trapped down there!? I was planning on blowing that building to pieces!", I groaned, "They would have accidentally been killed by me."

"You never asked.", they replied, "Are you hoping they are compatible partners?"

"I swear...you are just as bad as Midna...", I sighed, "Alright, so they aren't as strong as Ilulu but they are clones of her. Do you have an ETA on when they might arrive?"

"It may take a month or more for them to reach our location.", White Queen remarked, "They are currently headed to the Canadian border with a horde only a few miles behind them. We suggest arranging a meeting point with them in the Yukon region."

Nodding my head, I understood the situation as well as I could now. Locating the group of people driving away from Raccoon City, I marked them so I could track their movements. Spotting the names Lucy and Zero Two, I couldn't help but laugh a little. Somehow the timeline issue had managed to bring me two of the most popular female anime characters. Since we had guests headed our way, I had to talk to the three people in our settlement that were in the know of what I should expect. Asking Shigure to get up, I said I needed to go have a talk with a few people about the situation. Bringing Lucy, my father's former secretary, with me I asked her to take notes for the others. Foolishly the Royals had accepted them into their home thinking they would be an asset, but that had been far from the truth.

Based on what I had heard, only Claire and Jane had been helping out to some degree. Most of their time was spent trying to get a hold of their employer and colleagues around the globe. Only a very few people had responded to them, and were enroute to our location. As for Ada...well she had been desperately trying to reach anyone left in her organization. According to what I knew of her though, no one was going to answer as they were most likely dead given the state of the world. Even her employer was likely deceased which was something she didn't like the thought of given the true nature of what she was doing with Claire and Jane.

Knocking on the door, the Head Maid answered the door and let me. Explaining to her why I had come over she nodded her head, and said she'd get the three of them for me. Taking as seat at the small table in the front room, Gwen hurried over to serve me some tea with a worried look. Thanking her for the beverage, I noticed that her family and the Imperial Family were looking at me with nervous expressions.

"Midna, you know what's going on?", I asked, "You have been doing recon around the settlement so I am sure you know something. Is there a reason they are acting so strange?"

"They are worried about their status in the settlement. These people haven't known an honest days work in their lives the Imperial Empress only knows flower arrangements, tea serving, and how to please a man. As for the others...they know some swordplay meant for special events, flower arrangements, tea serving, and have gone through many etiquette courses that do nothing to increase their chances of surviving.", Midna informed me, "Kyoko has tried giving them other tasks...they have all failed at everything."

"I remember Kyoko told me that...", I remarked, "You are sure they aren't faking?"

"Yes, Gwen gave her all trying to be a farmer in the greenhouses. She understands the concept and can do the work...it's she can't do it with any real speed. As soon as she tries to rush she ends up messing up, and killing plants.", Midna stated, "The others are in the same boat, they can't move quickly enough to be of use. Anytime someone rushes them...well they break stuff, kill crops, or injure themselves."

"You have to be kidding me...", I sighed, "Now this makes more sense as to why they are looking at me like this. They are afraid I will kick them out because they can't preform any tasks.

Glancing over to Gwen, her hands were shaking with fear as she tried to force a smile. Patting her on the head I gave her a soft smile to calm her down. Assuring her that I wasn't here for any of them, I told her the reason for my visit. Falling onto me the stress just tumbled off her shoulders as she realized I wasn't here for them. Telling the others that I wasn't here for them as well, several of them fainted with relief and had to be caught by the maids. Giving Gwen a hug Ada, Claire, and Jane entered the room and took a seat.

"You finally came to see us!", Ada said pushing her breasts forward, 'Let's see how he acts.'

'So this is how she wants to start a conversation with me...', I thought, "I did, I got word some scientists managed to escape Raccoon City and they are on their way here. What I need-"

"Put your breasts back in your shirt!", Lucy shouted at her, "We are here on business, and you are trying to seduce him!!"

"Seduce him?", Ada laughed feinting ignorance, "I am not doing anything of the sort. You are the one that is wearing very tight clothing, and a short skirt. Are you sure you aren't the one seducing him?"

Looking at her for an answer myself, she turned bright red. To be honest the two of us got along very well, and I didn't mind adding her to my harem. That said that was a conversation for a later date, not right now.

"What do you want to know.", Claire said pushing Ada away trying to break the fight up, "Sorry about her, she seems to think that throwing her body at men will get her whatever she wants."

"It's cute she thinks she can compete with the women in my group.", I jabbed, "She is maybe a four or five at best."

Hearing that, I saw a brief scowl on Ada's face.

'This man has balls to say I am inferior to the others in terms of looks!?', Ada thought, 'What is wrong with him!?'

Laughing at that jab, Claire told me what happened when she tried it on the people here.

"The guards didn't give her the time of day, the Princes...well they said they didn't want an old woman.", Claire mocked, "She stayed in her room a whole day after that!"

"I resent that statement!!", Ada hissed, "I didn't-"

"It happened, I thought that would have been enough to make you stop that attitude of yours.", Jane sighed, "Act like a mature woman and not a hoe, maybe then his opinion of you will improve."

"You don't think of me as a hoe, do you?", Ada asked me with a stunned look.

"Should I recount the number of times you have attempted to seduce me?", I said with a smile.

Crossing her arms, it appeared like did upset her a bit. Leaving well enough alone, I gave them the names of the people coming towards us. Most of the people were apparently low level scientists and an intern, but the woman named Jessica had some value. She was apparently a close friend of my mothers, and had worked with her multiple times on projects including the one that made Zero Two and Lucy. As Ada was giving me more details, I remembered her full backstory and decided that I needed to bring it up shortly.

"That gives me a good idea of how to negotiate with them.", I said thanking her once she was done updating me, 'Still though, my gut instinct is to just kill the majority of them, and use Necromancy to get the answers. Ada is already a liability, but I think we can work something out.'

Turning to Claire, I decided to cut to the chase with her and Jane's communications.

"Claire, are you able to contact your brother?", I asked, "I know you have been trying to reach him without any response."

"I can try.", she replied before everything I said registered with her, "Wait, how did you know I was doing that!?"

"You can thank Red Queen and White Queen who intercepted your transmissions and relayed them too me. After the first message I let them just save a copy, and relay any critical information.", I told her, "It's not that I don't trust you, but I had to be cautious in case you would become a problem. In the event you became one, I didn't have an issue using you as zombie bait."

Shivering just thinking about it, she apologized for hiding it from me. Promising to be more honest with me moving forward, I accepted her apology.

"Last question for all of you, is there anyone left saving in the organization? Red and White Queens give me files so I only have that to go by.", I told them.

"No.", they said almost in sync.

"The valuable people were all executed systematically by the Executives.", Ada admitted to me, "I...I may have had a hand in that. In order to gain the trust of people, I had to sell others out to climb the ranks."

"So what you are saying is that I should hold you responsible?", I questioned.

"Not necessarily, I had no way of knowing it would get this bad.", Ada replied nervously.

"Ada, you can cut the act now.", I told her staring her dead in the eyes, "I know you had a good idea it would get bad, don't blow smoke up my ass."

"I don't follow...", she said trying to hide her shock.

"Don't play games Ada, I know someone was paying you to steal information from Umbrella Corp.", I stated narrowing my eyes, "You may have fooled these two, but you aren't fooling me. Your employer paid you to steal tissue samples and data from Umbrella Corp. The easiest way to do that was to join these two, and infiltrate one of the locations. This isn't the first time you have stolen from Umbrella."

"I must be getting old if you found me out that much...", Ada laughed dryly, "If you know that much...I admit I knew things were bad."

"Wait...Ada, you are saying you actually-", Claire started to say.

"Yes, the mission you had was only a cover for me to gather information for other companies.", Ada admitted, "My employer wanted to put Umbrella under because their engineered virus killed his daughter. She had a severe allergic reaction that killed her, and she came back to life as a zombie. She murdered his family, and he wanted revenge against them for what he lost. My goal was to steal data that could be used to expose their activities. Unfortunately this happened right after I got what I needed, and I haven't been able to contact my boss."

Admitting that she had also been selling information to Umbrella's rivals, everyone in the room glared at her with murderous intent. She was part of the problem that caused this mess, and she had hid that from them. Any amount of trust Claire and Jane had for her died in that moment. All of the minor inconsistencies that they had been noticing finally made sense, and Claire snapped.

"You fucking piece of shit!!", Claire shouted grabbing her by the collar, "The information and people we saved!! You were going to sell it all to other corrupt people!! How many fucking lives did you ruin and destroy!!"

Having gone through a lot with them, Ada couldn't give them a response. She understood what she did was wrong, but nevertheless she didn't regret her decision. The only thing she did regret was that all of her life long work was now up in smoke. The fortune she had amassed, all the favors people owed her, and all the contacts she had was all gone. If it weren't for that she'd have vanished a while ago, at this point the safest place was in Victor's group. Without allies to back her, she knew at this point she'd be dead in a matter of hours.

Seeing no signs of remorse or sadness, Claire let her go fuming with anger. To her Jane and Ada were family as they had gone through hell together. Ada even saved her during the initial outbreak which made this betrayal all the more painful. She believed that Ada was good, but we now realizing she used the two of them like pawns.

"I should fucking kill you right now!", Claire said putting a pistol to Ada's head, "How long have you been selling information?! My brother paid you to do several jobs for him, I need to know...have we always only been a cash cow for you? Do you realize how many innocent people my brother had killed thinking they were double agents?"

"Now hold there, I never once framed a single person!! I covered my tracks, and not a soul knew what I was doing. There were plenty of competitors that didn't want to pay for my services, and used cheaper options that got caught.", Ada shouted, "I only killed when I needed too, and have never once sold a human being!! My job has always been information gathering and collecting materials, selling people was never in my wheelhouse!! I admit I lied to you, but I have my own goals that I-"

"Look around you!!", Jane retorted, "What good are your goals when the world is gone!! You got paid all the money, and now it's useless. No one will accept it because it's worthless."

Ada had no comeback for that, she had been assured that this wouldn't happen numerous times. She believed her employer because he hadn't ever been wrong, but somehow they failed her when she needed them the most. Saying she needed some time alone, she walked off to think about things.